Corruption in politics, government and society

Das Repetitorium befasst sich mit den Eckpunkten und Meilensteinen in der Entwicklung der Menschenrechteund vermittelt eine prägnante Übersicht der politischen und rechtlichen Umsetzung der Menschenrechte in der Neuzeit.

American democracy has become coin operated.

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.

Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.

In 1980, Terrence Hake was a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illinois.

Secrets, Lies, Privilege, and Power.

'A gripping narrative, strengthened by Wheeler's longstanding connection to the story' Financial Times'Moving, angering' The TimesThe definitive account of the NHS infected blood scandal from Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2024In the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 haemophiliacs were infected with HIV or hepatitis C after being given contaminated NHS blood products.

Turbulent times.

La presente obra, que consta de seis capítulos, revisa las respuestas del derecho punitivo del Estado frente a la protesta social.

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When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond?

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different traditions in terms of how each understands the idea of universal human rights.

The US government has spent as much time covering up conspiracies as it has helping the American people.

Anger is all around us, from divisive social media arguments and heightened political divides to road rage and personal spats; from Black Lives Matter and climate justice movements to Trump, incels and white supremacists.

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation.

Überall auf der Welt nehmen Ungleichheit und Armut zu, die Menschenrechte werden mit Füßen getreten.

**A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive expos of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous.

In September 2005 one of South Africa's most eminent mining magnates and businessmen Brett Kebble was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg.

A Fox News legal analyst reveals how persons within the FBI and Justice Department attempted to help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 presidential election.

Regardless of which political party Americans identify with, the sentiment that those who work in Washington are corrupt transcends partisanship.

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Russia Hoax examines the latest findings about "e;collusion"e; between the Trump Administration and the Russians.

From the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the country's economy, to President Trump's appointment of family members to high-ranking White House positions, to President Lukashenko's desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus, across the world political corruption is rampant--indeed practically too ubiquitous to keep track of.

"e;The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World.

The last line of defense for our institutions, and our democracy Inspectors general may be the most important public servants you've never heard of.

In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portlands law enforcement institutions.

In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina.

This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project.

The corruption of public officials in the United States and its corrosive impact on public policy, political stability and democratic institutions, earns it a spot among the most critical public crises of the last decade.

Looks at cheating, corruption, and concealment to focus on motivations, justifications, influences, and reductions of dishonesty.

A study of ideas, their substance, origins and salience, in government decision-making during credibility crises in India and developing democracies.

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.

An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden.

The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination'A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carre couldn't dream of.

The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of all it governments.

Although, by all appearances, House of Cards is a television series about politics, it in fact explores some of the most subversive questions raised by Machiavelli's writings: what if the Prince were a ferocious animal?

Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research.

A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President.

The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.

The book argues that clarity of responsibility increases accountability and decreases corruption levels in democracies tested empirically.

A Chicago journalist reveals how pervasive police misconduct, brutality, and corruption are changing the perspective of the criminal justice system and eroding the morals of the American people.

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